Joshua - 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏

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Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Masoretic Text of Joshua - in Hebrew	יהושע (לפי נוסח חמסורה) מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה	Leningrad Codex Aleppo Codex
Targum Jonathan on Joshua - in Jewish Aramaic	תרגום יונתן על יהושע מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא combined critical edition מקור: ארמיטה	Yemenite manuscript of Yosef ben Benayah ben Sa'adyah ben Zekharyah ben Margaz, 1483 CE Codex Reuchlinianus 3, 1105 CE
Peshitta Joshua - in Syriac Aramaic	ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה	Codex Ambrosianus
Orit Joshua - in Ge'ez	ኦሪት ፡ ዘኢየሱስ ። ዐይን: Augustus Dillman	"Pre-Solomonic" ms.: BN Éth. 3 (1262-1277) Likely typical "early" mss.: Davies Kebran (1417/18) [p: 174]; IES 294 (15th c.) [p: 264]; EMML 9001(15th c.) [p: 96]; Gunda Gunde 88 (15th c.) [p: 2]; Davies Bizan 1 (16th c.) [p: 140] Likely typical "standardized" mss.: EMML 6359 (1678) [p: 110]; EMIP 754 (18th c.) [p: 53] Likely typical "modern" mss.: EMIP 1115 (1895/6) [p: 216]; Unesco 2-4 (1900-1925) [p: 2_126]; IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 97v] Beta Israel mss.: NLI Tofsei HaOrit 2 (scribe Amda Maryam) (15th-16th c.); NLI Or. 87 (Hoharwa Monastery) (17th c.); EMIP 2111 (Haverford Octateuch) (17th-18th c.) [p: 151]; D'Abbadie 148 (18th c.); Ben Zvi Institute 6001 (20th c.) Potential "Outlier" mss.: BL Or. 480 (14th-15th c.) [p: 397]; EMML 1929 (1434-68) [p: 213]; Gunda Gunde 60 (16th c.) [p:43]; EMML 7637 (16th c.) [p: 166]; Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588); EMML 1842 (1662/3) [p: 186]; EMML 39 (19th c.) [p: 145]
Septuagint Joshua - in Koine Greek	Ιησούς Ναυή: Rahlfs' edition πηγή: nocr Swete's edition πηγή: biblehub	Codex Vaticanus (p: 238)
Vulgate Joshua - in Latin	josue fons: vulgate.org	Codex Gigas

Non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Joshua - in Hebrew	ספר יהושע: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח מקור: הדרך ליהוה	All Dead Sea Scrolls Joshua fragments
Samaritan Book of Joshua, or The Samaritan Chronicle - in Samaritan Hebrew and in Samaritan Arabic	ࠎࠐࠓ࠰ ࠄࠉࠌࠉࠌ (ࠎࠐࠓ࠰ ࠉࠄࠅࠔࠏ࠰ ࠁࠍ࠰ ࠍࠅࠍ) -- Samaritan Hebrew recension. سفر يوشع بن نون عليه السلام -- later Samaritan Arabic recension. ࠌࠒࠅࠓ: Juynboll, Theodor Willem Johann , משה גסטר	Book of Joshua (Gaster Samaritan MS 888) - in Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Arabic
Early Palestinian Christian version of Joshua - in "Syriac" Aramaic	general fragments ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
Alternate Septuagint recension "A" -- in Koine Greek	Joshua ch. 15, Joshua ch. 18 -- Rahlfs' edition. πηγή: nocr	Codex Alexandrinus
Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Joshua - in Latin	josue fons: Petri Sabatier	Codex Lugdunensis (Ms. 1964, P: 30R)
Additional Jewish Targumim: Tosefta to Targum Joshua - in Jewish Aramaic	תוספתא לתרגום יהושע מקור: ארמיטה

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